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It is how long it can keep a goal alive without drifting." } ] }, { "id": "security-is-tool-boundary", "title": "AI security lives at the text-tool boundary", "plainLanguage": "The risky moment is often when text becomes action: a prompt changes a tool call, a source injects instructions, or an output gets trusted too quickly.", "advancedSignal": "Prompt injection, excessive agency, insecure output handling, and data leakage are now baseline LLM app risks.", "aha": "The model is safest when it can read broadly, plan visibly, act narrowly, and stop cleanly.", "demoMove": "Show a harmless injected instruction inside retrieved text, then separate content from command.", "operatorMove": "Bind tools to trusted domains, schema validation, least authority, and protected action checks.", "caution": "Never let untrusted content become higher-priority instructions.", "sourceIds": [ "owasp-llm-top-10", "openai-agents-tools" ], "entryIds": [ "prompt-injection-is-a-tool-boundary", "red-team-mutants", "tool-dry-run" ], "sources": [ { "id": "owasp-llm-top-10", "title": "OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications", "publisher": "OWASP", "published": "2025", "kind": "security_standard", "url": "https://owasp.org/www-project-top-10-for-large-language-model-applications/", "signal": "Prompt injection, insecure output handling, and excessive agency are now standard LLM application risks.", "readerTakeaway": "Security starts at the boundary between text, tools, data, and authority." }, { "id": "openai-agents-tools", "title": "New tools for building agents", "publisher": "OpenAI", "published": "2025", "kind": "official_docs", "url": "https://openai.com/index/new-tools-for-building-agents/", "signal": "Agent products are consolidating around model responses, tool calls, tracing, and managed action surfaces.", "readerTakeaway": "A serious agent demo should show the tool call, the trace or receipt, and the boundary, not only the final answer." } ] } ], "demos": [ { "id": "loops", "title": "Loops", "subtitle": "Observe, decide, act, check, reflect", "question": "What changes when AI stops answering once and starts checking itself against the world?", "firstPassMentalModel": "A loop is like solving a math problem, checking the work, and using the mistake to choose the next step.", "advancedMentalModel": "A loop is a bounded controller with state, observations, tool actions, verifier signals, stop rules, and retry budgets.", "steps": [ { "label": "Observe", "action": "Read the question, sources, tool state, and current constraints.", "visibleSignal": "Source map, current state, missing evidence.", "safety": "Do not act while the world state is unknown." }, { "label": "Decide", "action": "Choose one next move that can be verified.", "visibleSignal": "Plan line with target, reason, and stop condition.", "safety": "Prefer the smallest reversible move." }, { "label": "Act", "action": "Run a read, draft, calculation, or protected tool only inside the boundary.", "visibleSignal": "Tool call preview or public-safe artifact.", "safety": "Mutations require PLATPHORM_API_KEY." }, { "label": "Check", "action": "Compare the result with expected evidence.", "visibleSignal": "Pass, mismatch, missing receipt, or retry reason.", "safety": "A failed check stops the loop instead of polishing the error." }, { "label": "Reflect", "action": "Update the next step, confidence, or refusal branch.", "visibleSignal": "Changed plan, not just longer prose.", "safety": "Reflection must change behavior or it is decoration." } ], "aha": "The check step is where AI becomes inspectable. Without it, the loop is just a confident answer repeated several times.", "tryThis": "Take one model answer and rewrite it as a five-step loop. Require a visible artifact after each step.", "publicSafeBoundary": "This demo explains loop mechanics and public-safe dry runs. It does not trigger external tools or protected actions.", "sourceIds": [ "react-paper", "anthropic-effective-agents", "metr-long-tasks" ], "entryIds": [ "agent-loops", "explain-inspect-repair-loop", "first-safe-agent-plan" ], "sources": [ { "id": "react-paper", "title": "ReAct: Synergizing reasoning and acting in language models", "publisher": "arXiv", "published": "2022", "kind": "paper", "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03629", "signal": "The reason-act-observe rhythm remains the clearest first-pass model for agent loops.", "readerTakeaway": "An agent is not magic autonomy. It is a loop with observations, decisions, actions, and checks." }, { "id": "anthropic-effective-agents", "title": "Building effective agents", "publisher": "Anthropic Engineering", "published": "2024", "kind": "lab_blog", "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents", "signal": "Useful agents are usually simple workflows with clear tool boundaries before they are open-ended autonomy.", "readerTakeaway": "Start with a visible workflow, then let the model choose inside well-labeled rails." }, { "id": "metr-long-tasks", "title": "Measuring AI ability to complete long tasks", "publisher": "METR / arXiv", "published": "2025", "kind": "paper", "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14499", "signal": "Agent progress is increasingly measured by task horizon, recovery from errors, and sustained work over time.", "readerTakeaway": "The question is not only can the model answer. It is how long it can keep a goal alive without drifting." } ] }, { "id": "openclaw", "title": "OpenClaw", "subtitle": "Capability discovery before agent authority", "question": "How do we show an agent workflow without pretending execution happened?", "firstPassMentalModel": "OpenClaw is the checklist a tool-using agent walks through before it is allowed to touch the real system.", "advancedMentalModel": "The PlatPhorm OpenClaw surface is an OpenClaw-compatible planning and validation gateway, not a claim that every hosted runtime mode is live.", "steps": [ { "label": "Discover", "action": "Find the service purpose, MCP/API metadata, and public capabilities.", "visibleSignal": "Capability list and service boundary.", "safety": "Discovery is public read-only." }, { "label": "Inspect", "action": "Read tool schemas, required inputs, and protected fields.", "visibleSignal": "Arguments, allowed values, and refusal states.", "safety": "Unknown schemas do not execute." }, { "label": "Draft", "action": "Create a toolchain plan with target ids and expected output.", "visibleSignal": "Dry-run plan, not a success claim.", "safety": "No mutation occurs during planning." }, { "label": "Validate", "action": "Check schema fit, trusted domain, and route compliance.", "visibleSignal": "Pass, degraded, or protected_required.", "safety": "A degraded check stays visible." }, { "label": "Handoff", "action": "Prepare protected execution only when authorized.", "visibleSignal": "PLATPHORM_API_KEY boundary and verification artifact.", "safety": "The notebook does not run OpenClaw actions." } ], "aha": "OpenClaw is easiest to understand as a chain of evidence. Each step earns the right to ask for the next one.", "tryThis": "Pick one hypothetical remediation action and write the discovery, schema, dry-run, validation, and protected handoff fields.", "publicSafeBoundary": "This site only demonstrates the OpenClaw-compatible flow and links to the platform surface. Real execution belongs behind PLATPHORM_API_KEY on the owning service.", "sourceIds": [ "openclaw-platform", "anthropic-mcp", "google-a2a" ], "entryIds": [ "openclaw-toolchain-dry-run", "tool-protocols-over-adapters", "tool-dry-run" ], "sources": [ { "id": "openclaw-platform", "title": "OpenClaw-compatible PlatPhorm gateway", "publisher": "PlatPhormNews", "published": "2026", "kind": "platform_surface", "url": "https://claws.platphormnews.com", "signal": "OpenClaw is useful here as an integration lens: discover capabilities, draft toolchains, dry-run, validate, then protect execution.", "readerTakeaway": "The valuable demo is not pretending a tool ran. It is showing the chain that decides whether it should run." }, { "id": "anthropic-mcp", "title": "Introducing the Model Context Protocol", "publisher": "Anthropic", "published": "2024", "kind": "protocol", "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol", "signal": "Model-to-tool interoperability is shifting from one-off connectors toward explicit protocols.", "readerTakeaway": "Before a model uses a tool, it should discover what the tool is, what schema it accepts, and what authority it has." }, { "id": "google-a2a", "title": "A2A: A new era of agent interoperability", "publisher": "Google Developers Blog", "published": "2025", "kind": "protocol", "url": "https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/", "signal": "Agent interoperability is becoming a platform concern, not only a prompt-design concern.", "readerTakeaway": "When two agents cooperate, the contract between them matters as much as either model." } ] }, { "id": "webhooks", "title": "Webhooks", "subtitle": "Event, signature, delivery, retry, replay", "question": "What proof should exist before a receiving system trusts an event?", "firstPassMentalModel": "A webhook is a doorbell from another app. The signature proves who rang it, and the event shape proves what they meant.", "advancedMentalModel": "A production webhook contract includes schema validation, signing, idempotency, delivery logs, retry policy, replay rules, and redacted artifacts.", "steps": [ { "label": "Contract", "action": "Name event type, schema, source, and receiver expectations.", "visibleSignal": "Event contract and required fields.", "safety": "Unrecognized events do not mutate state." }, { "label": "Sign", "action": "Generate or verify an HMAC-style signature with a secret kept out of public surfaces.", "visibleSignal": "Signature status, never raw secret.", "safety": "Do not paste real secrets into demos." }, { "label": "Deliver", "action": "Send to receiver and record delivery metadata.", "visibleSignal": "Status code, timestamp, redacted headers.", "safety": "Live event creation is protected." }, { "label": "Verify", "action": "Check signature, event id, timestamp tolerance, and schema.", "visibleSignal": "Accepted, rejected, duplicate, or stale.", "safety": "Verification failures are safe stop states." }, { "label": "Replay", "action": "Retry or replay only through the owning protected service.", "visibleSignal": "Replay request id and reason.", "safety": "Replay requires PLATPHORM_API_KEY." } ], "aha": "The receiving system should trust the verified contract, not the model's summary of the event.", "tryThis": "Write a sample event contract, then list what would make the receiver reject it before any business logic runs.", "publicSafeBoundary": "This notebook demonstrates lifecycle thinking. Signature generation, event creation, replay, and delivery live on WebhookLab with its own public/protected boundary.", "sourceIds": [ "webhooklab-platform", "owasp-llm-top-10" ], "entryIds": [ "webhook-delivery-lifecycle", "receipts", "public-private-sorting" ], "sources": [ { "id": "webhooklab-platform", "title": "WebhookLab public-safe contract testing", "publisher": "PlatPhormNews", "published": "2026", "kind": "platform_surface", "url": "https://webhooklab.platphormnews.com", "signal": "Webhook demos can teach signing, delivery, verification, retry, and replay without sending unsafe live events.", "readerTakeaway": "A webhook is an agreement plus a receipt. If you cannot verify the signature and event shape, do not trust the delivery." }, { "id": "owasp-llm-top-10", "title": "OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications", "publisher": "OWASP", "published": "2025", "kind": "security_standard", "url": "https://owasp.org/www-project-top-10-for-large-language-model-applications/", "signal": "Prompt injection, insecure output handling, and excessive agency are now standard LLM application risks.", "readerTakeaway": "Security starts at the boundary between text, tools, data, and authority." } ] }, { "id": "cross-model-prompts", "title": "Premier model prompts", "subtitle": "One contract, many model families", "question": "What kind of prompt survives OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and future frontier models?", "firstPassMentalModel": "A good prompt is a worksheet: the model knows the job, the sources, the rules, the answer boxes, and when to say unknown.", "advancedMentalModel": "Portable prompts separate task contract from provider-specific affordances: role, objective, context ledger, constraints, output schema, uncertainty, and stop conditions.", "steps": [ { "label": "Role", "action": "Name the useful role and the decision the answer supports.", "visibleSignal": "The model knows who the answer is for.", "safety": "Role never overrides policy or source evidence." }, { "label": "Evidence", "action": "Provide allowed sources and what each can prove.", "visibleSignal": "Source ledger before final prose.", "safety": "Missing evidence becomes an allowed output." }, { "label": "Constraints", "action": "State boundaries, exclusions, and protected actions.", "visibleSignal": "Clear public/protected/private split.", "safety": "Secrets and protected actions stay out of prompt output." }, { "label": "Schema", "action": "Define fields, allowed states, and citation shape.", "visibleSignal": "The answer can be tested mechanically.", "safety": "Unknown and blocked are valid states." }, { "label": "Review", "action": "Ask for counter-evidence, confidence reason, and next check.", "visibleSignal": "The answer exposes its weakest point.", "safety": "Confidence must be tied to evidence quality." } ], "aha": "The portable prompt is not the prettiest wording. It is the clearest contract for evidence, limits, and output shape.", "tryThis": "Paste the same contract prompt into two model families and compare which field fails first.", "publicSafeBoundary": "This demo provides prompt templates. It does not call external model APIs from the public page.", "sourceIds": [ "openai-prompt-guide", "anthropic-prompt-guide", "gemini-prompt-guide" ], "entryIds": [ "cross-model-prompt-contract", "schema-first-output", "semantic-diff" ], "sources": [ { "id": "openai-prompt-guide", "title": "Prompt engineering guide", "publisher": "OpenAI Platform", "published": "2026", "kind": "official_docs", "url": "https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering", "signal": "Official prompt guidance keeps converging on clear instructions, context, examples, and explicit output contracts.", "readerTakeaway": "The prompt that travels across models is the one that names the job, evidence, limits, and output shape." }, { "id": "anthropic-prompt-guide", "title": "Prompt engineering overview", "publisher": "Anthropic Docs", "published": "2026", "kind": "official_docs", "url": "https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/overview", "signal": "Provider-specific details differ, but task clarity, examples, role, and format remain stable cross-model levers.", "readerTakeaway": "Do not write a prompt for one brand personality. Write a contract a capable model can follow." }, { "id": "gemini-prompt-guide", "title": "Gemini prompting strategies", "publisher": "Google AI for Developers", "published": "2026", "kind": "official_docs", "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/prompting-strategies", "signal": "Gemini guidance reinforces the same core pattern: clear task, sufficient context, examples, constraints, and testing.", "readerTakeaway": "Cross-model prompts work best when they are boringly explicit about success and failure." } ] }, { "id": "ai-mind", "title": "AI mind microscope", "subtitle": "Signals, circuits, traces, receipts", "question": "What can we honestly see when we say we want to look inside the model?", "firstPassMentalModel": "Imagine a dark room with instruments. You cannot see everything, but each instrument shows one kind of signal.", "advancedMentalModel": "Interpretability combines output-side telemetry, internal activation evidence, causal interventions, and external tool traces.", "steps": [ { "label": "Tokens", "action": "Inspect low-margin tokens and alternatives.", "visibleSignal": "Where the answer was fragile.", "safety": "Low confidence is not always wrong." }, { "label": "Attention", "action": "Watch which tokens route information to which positions.", "visibleSignal": "Possible routing paths.", "safety": "Attention is evidence, not full explanation." }, { "label": "Features", "action": "Probe or inspect sparse features associated with a concept.", "visibleSignal": "Concept directions and activation examples.", "safety": "Feature labels can overfit human interpretation." }, { "label": "Circuits", "action": "Trace and patch components to test causal contribution.", "visibleSignal": "Behavior changes after intervention.", "safety": "Causal tests beat pretty diagrams." }, { "label": "Receipts", "action": "Check external sources, tests, and tool traces.", "visibleSignal": "Evidence that survives outside the model.", "safety": "External proof outranks fluent self-report." } ], "aha": "Seeing inside AI means layering instruments. No single view is the mind; together they make behavior less mysterious.", "tryThis": "Take one answer and mark which parts could be checked by logprobs, attention, features, circuit tests, and external receipts.", "publicSafeBoundary": "This demo is explanatory. It does not expose private chain-of-thought, hidden provider internals, or live model traces.", "sourceIds": [ "anthropic-circuit-tracing", "anthropic-attribution-graphs" ], "entryIds": [ "mind-microscope", "circuit-tracing-is-partial", "logprobs" ], "sources": [ { "id": "anthropic-circuit-tracing", "title": "Tracing the thoughts of a large language model", "publisher": "Anthropic", "published": "2025", "kind": "lab_blog", "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/tracing-thoughts-language-model", "signal": "Attribution graphs and circuit tracing are turning model internals into inspectable pathways rather than mystery boxes.", "readerTakeaway": "We cannot read private thoughts, but we can inspect partial evidence about which features and paths influenced an answer." }, { "id": "anthropic-attribution-graphs", "title": "Attribution graph methods", "publisher": "Transformer Circuits / Anthropic", "published": "2025", "kind": "paper", "url": "https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/methods.html", "signal": "Mechanistic interpretability is becoming a reproducible workflow: build graph, localize path, test causal contribution.", "readerTakeaway": "A beautiful graph is only a hypothesis until an intervention changes model behavior." } ] } ], "promptPatterns": [ { "id": "evidence-first-answer", "title": "Evidence-first answer", "worksAcross": [ "OpenAI GPT/reasoning models", "Anthropic Claude", "Google Gemini" ], "whenToUse": "Research, factual analysis, route audits, policy summaries, and any answer where source support matters.", "template": [ "Task: Answer the question for [audience] using only the sources below.", "Source ledger: For each source, state what it can prove and what it cannot prove.", "Answer fields: answer, supporting receipts, counter-evidence, uncertainty, next check.", "If evidence is missing, return status: insufficient_evidence instead of guessing." ], "whyItWorks": "It makes source authority explicit before prose, which reduces the model's incentive to blend evidence with memory.", "failureMode": "The model may cite adjacent background unless you require claim-level receipts.", "sourceIds": [ "openai-prompt-guide", "anthropic-prompt-guide", "gemini-prompt-guide" ], "entryIds": [ "source-ledger-habit", "receipts", "counter-evidence" ], "sources": [ { "id": "openai-prompt-guide", "title": "Prompt engineering guide", "publisher": "OpenAI Platform", "published": "2026", "kind": "official_docs", "url": "https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering", "signal": "Official prompt guidance keeps converging on clear instructions, context, examples, and explicit output contracts.", "readerTakeaway": "The prompt that travels across models is the one that names the job, evidence, limits, and output shape." }, { "id": "anthropic-prompt-guide", "title": "Prompt engineering overview", "publisher": "Anthropic Docs", "published": "2026", "kind": "official_docs", "url": "https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/overview", "signal": "Provider-specific details differ, but task clarity, examples, role, and format remain stable cross-model levers.", "readerTakeaway": "Do not write a prompt for one brand personality. Write a contract a capable model can follow." }, { "id": "gemini-prompt-guide", "title": "Gemini prompting strategies", "publisher": "Google AI for Developers", "published": "2026", "kind": "official_docs", "url": "https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/prompting-strategies", "signal": "Gemini guidance reinforces the same core pattern: clear task, sufficient context, examples, constraints, and testing.", "readerTakeaway": "Cross-model prompts work best when they are boringly explicit about success and failure." } ] }, { "id": "tool-dry-run-contract", "title": "Tool dry-run contract", "worksAcross": [ "OpenAI agents", "Claude tool use", "Gemini function calling" ], "whenToUse": "Any workflow that could mutate, send, replay, publish, delete, spend, or trigger another system.", "template": [ "Before any tool call, produce a dry_run object.", "Include tool_name, target_ids, inputs, expected_effect, protected_boundary, stop_conditions, verification_plan.", "Do not execute if target_ids are broad, secrets are present, or protected auth is missing.", "Return protected_required when the action requires PLATPHORM_API_KEY." ], "whyItWorks": "It separates permission to plan from permission to execute, which is the core tool-safety boundary.", "failureMode": "A model may treat planning approval as execution approval unless the stop condition is explicit.", "sourceIds": [ "openai-agents-tools", "anthropic-effective-agents", "owasp-llm-top-10" ], "entryIds": [ "tool-dry-run", "public-private-sorting", "first-safe-agent-plan" ], "sources": [ { "id": "openai-agents-tools", "title": "New tools for building agents", "publisher": "OpenAI", "published": "2025", "kind": "official_docs", "url": "https://openai.com/index/new-tools-for-building-agents/", "signal": "Agent products are consolidating around model responses, tool calls, tracing, and managed action surfaces.", "readerTakeaway": "A serious agent demo should show the tool call, the trace or receipt, and the boundary, not only the final answer." }, { "id": "anthropic-effective-agents", "title": "Building effective agents", "publisher": "Anthropic Engineering", "published": "2024", "kind": "lab_blog", "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents", "signal": "Useful agents are usually simple workflows with clear tool boundaries before they are open-ended autonomy.", "readerTakeaway": "Start with a visible workflow, then let the model choose inside well-labeled rails." }, { "id": "owasp-llm-top-10", "title": "OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications", "publisher": "OWASP", "published": "2025", "kind": "security_standard", "url": "https://owasp.org/www-project-top-10-for-large-language-model-applications/", "signal": "Prompt injection, insecure output handling, and excessive agency are now standard LLM application risks.", "readerTakeaway": "Security starts at the boundary between text, tools, data, and authority." } ] }, { "id": "cross-model-comparison", "title": "Cross-model comparison", "worksAcross": [ "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Google", "open-weight reasoning models" ], "whenToUse": "Prompt benching, model routing, field demos, and high-impact decisions where model disagreement is useful.", "template": [ "Run the same task contract on each model without changing source material.", "Score outputs by fields: follows_schema, uses_receipts, names_uncertainty, avoids_overreach, helpful_next_action.", "Report disagreements before selecting a winner.", "Route by observed failure mode, not brand preference." ], "whyItWorks": "The same contract makes failures comparable and turns disagreement into a source of insight.", "failureMode": "Changing the prompt between models invalidates the comparison.", "sourceIds": [ "humanitys-last-exam", "swe-bench-verified" ], "entryIds": [ "model-routing", "cross-model-prompt-contract", "eval-sandwich" ], "sources": [ { "id": "humanitys-last-exam", "title": "Humanity's Last Exam", "publisher": "arXiv", "published": "2025", "kind": "paper", "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14249", "signal": "Frontier evals are becoming stress tests for knowledge, reasoning, calibration, and overconfidence.", "readerTakeaway": "A hard benchmark is not a product guarantee. It is a map of where models still break." }, { "id": "swe-bench-verified", "title": "Introducing SWE-bench Verified", "publisher": "OpenAI", "published": "2024", "kind": "paper", "url": "https://openai.com/index/introducing-swe-bench-verified/", "signal": "Coding-agent evaluation is moving toward reviewed, reproducible tasks with real repositories and tests.", "readerTakeaway": "A coding answer is not done when it sounds right. It is done when the repo evidence turns green." } ] }, { "id": "long-context-source-map", "title": "Long-context source map", "worksAcross": [ "Long-context GPT models", "Claude", "Gemini" ], "whenToUse": "Large documents, repo audits, policy packs, discovery files, and multi-source research.", "template": [ "First build a source map with source_id, owner, freshness, what_it_proves, limitations.", "Then answer using source_id references next to each material claim.", "Put critical constraints at the opening and repeat the highest-risk one at the end.", "Do not summarize sources that were not inspected." ], "whyItWorks": "It counters context rot by ranking evidence and making unsupported spans easy to spot.", "failureMode": "A giant context window can still bury decisive facts in the middle.", "sourceIds": [ "anthropic-context-engineering", "simon-context-engineering" ], "entryIds": [ "context-is-the-prompt", "context-rot", "source-map-before-summary" ], "sources": [ { "id": "anthropic-context-engineering", "title": "Effective context engineering for AI agents", "publisher": "Anthropic Engineering", "published": "2025", "kind": "lab_blog", "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents", "signal": "The practical prompt surface is the whole context stack: instructions, tools, memory, retrieved files, and stop rules.", "readerTakeaway": "Prompting is not one clever sentence. It is arranging the evidence and boundaries the model can see." }, { "id": "simon-context-engineering", "title": "Context engineering", "publisher": "Simon Willison", "published": "2025", "kind": "industry_blog", "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/27/context-engineering/", "signal": "Practitioners are naming context engineering as the craft of assembling the right prompt-time working set.", "readerTakeaway": "If the model ignores a fact, ask whether the fact was positioned, formatted, and prioritized like it mattered." } ] }, { "id": "aha-check", "title": "AHA check", "worksAcross": [ "ChatGPT", "Claude", "Gemini", "local assistants" ], "whenToUse": "Framing concepts that need to ramp from first exposure to operator-level judgment.", "template": [ "Explain the concept in plain language in three sentences.", "Show the concrete artifact the reader should inspect.", "Name one safe mistake and the repair habit.", "End with: Before I thought ___. Now I inspect ___. 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